http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:28:18 +0000 http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity en http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:28:18 +0000 HazardousDavis 4715 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/FirstDark">First Dark</a> wrote:<br /><br />Another great example to refer to on this subject:<br /> <br /> <blockquote>Despite Stanley Kubrick's ability in photography, at Taft his overall grades remained poor. In the spring of 1945 he was reported to the attendance bureau for excessive absences... The school criticized Stanley's behavior and social skills. He received low ratings in Courtesy, Dependability, and Cooperation–skills he later mastered and served him well in his professional life. Later, as a film director, Kubrick would demonstrate his strength of character by commanding respect from those who worked with him, and he was recognized as a leader, but without the motivation of his art, Stanley Kubrick was perceived by Taft High School as an underachiever with less than acceptable socialization with his peers and teachers. The conventional education system was unable to bring Stanley Kubrick, like so many individuals in the arts, into the mainstream or to recognize and harvest his extraordinary talent. (18)<br /> <br /> Stanley did not have a good attendance record at Taft High School, but he did have a solid one at the local movie theaters. (15)<br /> <br /> He ranked 414 out of a senior population of 509, putting him in the last quartile of his graduating class... During his high school career, Kubrick's grades didn't reflect the intellect and ambition growing in the young man. (32)</blockquote><br /> <br /> – from &quot;Stanley Kubrick: A Biography&quot; By Vincent LoBrutto http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:48:16 +0000 HazardousDavis 4715 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/"> </a> wrote:<br /><br />Eleven nobel prize winners explain why they didn't think the school system is conducive to learning, including such famous geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Bertrand Russell; One nobel prize winner who expounded the virtues of school who also happened to enjoy diddling kids in third world countries.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html" target="blank">http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html</a><br> <br /> <a href="http://spacecollective.org/dmitridb/4724/The-Resignation-of-John-Taylor-Gatto">+a bit more on that John Taylor Gatto fellow.</a> http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:01:44 +0000 HazardousDavis 4715 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/FirstDark">First Dark</a> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote>I recently judged a short story competition run by a charity, and what dismayed me about the entries was they were all superficially bright and competent, correctly spelled and punctuated, and all absolutely lifeless.. They all bore the marks of having been drilled into the children: this is how you open a story; here you need some dialogue; you must have a punchy final paragraph. They would all have scored highly on a test. They were all empty, conventional and worthless. </blockquote><br /> – Philip Pullman, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/sep/30/primaryeducation.schools" target="_blank">Lost the plot</a><br /> <br /> <blockquote>Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness. It’s a religious idea gone out of control. You don’t have to accept that, though, to realize this kind of economy would be jeopardized by too many smart people who understand too much. </blockquote><br /> – John Taylor Gatto, <a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm" target="_blank"><i>The Underground History of American Education</i></a><br /> <br /> <blockquote>Critical judgment disappears altogether, for in no way can there ever be collective critical judgment....The individual can no longer judge for himself because he inescapably relates his thoughts to the entire complex of values and prejudices established by propaganda. With regard to political situations, he is given ready-made value judgments invested with the power of the truth by...the word of experts.</blockquote><br /> – Jacques Ellul, <i>Propaganda</i><br /> <br /> <blockquote>It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.</blockquote><br /> – Albert Einstein, quoted by Daniel Kevles http://spacecollective.org/HazardousDavis/4715/Do-schools-KILL-creativity